Black Student Activism on MSU Campus

This article covers the broader topic of the racism faced by black students both during and after the lead up to integration in the school system as a whole. Even though the movement was being executed, the main issue of the Student Association’s racial bias and general opposition towards the moment served as one of the main problems that needed to be covered by the movement. Despite these preexisting problems within the system, the movement helped to motivate a move against these ideals and allowed for the progression of the cause to ensue change within the wider public. The piece relates to the need for action and response for what black students are being faced with throughout these times, but the general call for change is necessary in producing better conditions for the school in its entirety. Alongside that, the article also displays the main idea and basis that the board stands to represent through its stance against the movement. Being able to see the responses that the Student Association made about the black students at the school allows for a better understanding about what was being done against integration and this change.

Looking at the coinciding impact that the Civil Rights movement has helped in supporting the black student population and how the sheer amount of outcry and activism displayed within the movement had helped to make change in both the school and, by proxy, the state’s outlook on the ordeal. As seen within the article, the move of these federal agencies to promote equality within the university gives a good look at the need to uphold this pursuit for fairness within the South. These reposts and articles help to portray these different means for changing this outlook of black students before integration, but the message that the supporters present to the broader audience is in favor of black students and displaying why there is a need for equality for MSU.

A larger discussion about the change in the student body’s outlook on the integration of black students, as well as covering how they view the troubles that these black students have faced during their time at the school as well as the body’s decisions on what exactly needed to be changed in the system in order to reach this state of equality for student like and the school as a whole. This article covers the various points where students have been met with backlash and hate, proposing various ways in which these aspects can be improved upon and hopefully changed through their movement. The mention of this prejudice faced relates to the broader issue of the types of things in which the school’s students and the majority of the state has displayed towards the black population as a whole.

As a whole, these items manage to overlap with each other is telling the story of black student life on campus during these times with the majority of these articles showing the various forms of action and movement they pushed for in order to make change on campus. The articles just highlight a fraction of the amount of prejudice displayed to black students during this time, but the overall message being displayed manages to show just what the movement had to face in order to achieve what they were able to do throughout this period. Despite these challenges, the ability for the black students to stand up for this cause and change the school through their action makes their story one of the most important in the school’s history. This movement for better equality not only ties into what the students to change there but manages to tie into the overall call for change in the state in its entirety.